Georgian is natively spoken by about 2.6 million people, primarily in Georgia and among the Georgian diaspora. It is integral to Georgian cultural identity, celebrated for its unique alphabet, literature, and polyphonic music. Georgian grammar features an agglutinative structure with a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, a rich system of verb conjugations, and noun cases to indicate grammatical relationships.
Stats
Language Family: Kartvelian
Writing System: Georgian
Writing System Type: Alphabet
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: N
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 7
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0
Number of Verb Tenses: 10
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 5
Number of Consonants: 28
Areas Where Spoken
Georgia (official) (71.7%) (2.66 mil)
Resources
Books
SEELRC [PDF] - In-depth grammar with index
Peace Corps’ Georgian Language Beginner Program [PDF] - Basic guide
Book2 - Phrasebook course with audio
Websites
50languages.com - Phrasebook
translate.ge - Dictionary
National Parliamentary Library of Georgia - English-Georgian dictionary
transliteration - Use keyboard to type in Mkhedruli script
Videos
YouTube | Peace Corps Georgia (Georgian grammar and vocabulary lessons)